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  Considering External Data in Demand Planning When you make business decisions, you are almost always looking forward. You’re thinking about the future. This means you’re thinking about forecasting and planning. And what this really all means, is that you are thinking about demand. When you make critical decisions around demand, you need information from …

Gene Tanski, CEO of Demand Foresight, comments on supply chain and demand planning blogs.

Commanding massive amounts of data will be critical to your demand planning and forecasting ability. Does your forecast software have the capability to keep up with granular, high-volume data that can yield big insights for you and your customers?

How could better demand planning and forecasting software, internal processes and data management have helped Dean Foods avoid missing its forecast so badly?

Gene Tanski discusses demand planning, forecasting, and supply chain software trends with Jean Creech of Bold Ventures Radio.

Around the supply chain and demand planning blogosphere in this post…Debating best-of-breed vs. ERP for IT performance, Gene Tanski fires a cannon shot at CIOs who take convenience over performance.

Gene Tanski of Demand Foresight Software discusses how the short-term, S&OP, and strategic planning time frames must all be harmonized in a successful demand planning and forecasting process. Sales, planning, and marketing groups must be held accountable for their piece of the forecast for the dance to really work — and for your company to gain competitive advantage.

Gene Tanski, CEO of Demand Foresight (demand planning, forecasting, and supply chain management software) cautions against seeing companies purely in terms of their value to VC and venture money — instead of the value they’ll bank their future on and create for their customers.

CIO Magazine discusses how Imperial Sugar’s acquisition of best-of-breed demand planning and supply chain management software from Demand Foresight helped them recover from a 2008 tragedy at their Georgia facility.

Gene Tanski, CEO of Demand Foresight, rounds up some recent blogosphere action around SCM, demand planning, supply chain management, ERP and forecasting.